You will have completed a recognised and appropriate course of study with relevant work experience and hold a relevant professional qualification. A significant and successful track record of working with all types of Estate and Property Electrical systems is essential as is the ability to plan, prioritise, allocate and monitor work and motivate teams including direct labour and contractors.

An effective communicator, you will be able to produce written reports with highly complex specialist information, adjusting the level of content to suit varying audiences. Your ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure whilst maintaining close attention to detail and adhering to agreed deadlines will be important whilst your ability to develop effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels will ensure that you quickly establish yourself as a key member of our award-winning department.

About the Role

You will have responsibility for maintaining the developing campus, and supporting the Buildings & Maintenance Manager in developing and leading the Estate team to ensure its long term success and sustainability – embedding a consistent customer-centric culture. You will also support the Buildings and Maintenance Manager and Head of Estates with the management of response maintenance, planned preventative maintenance, statutory inspection and Minor Project Works.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Presenting with impact’ or ‘Preparing for progression & success’, you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

“A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Glyn Cameron-Branthwaite, Buildings and Maintenance Manager at branthwg@edgehill.ac.uk